Columns

Commentary — We at SMART ask that you don’t be misled by what is now a privately funded $1.7m campaign against our fledgling train. Facts are constantly being distorted by No on Measure I, as they’ve been doing since before the train was even on the tracks.   

Greetings from the Library, where we saw many of you during the power outages of early October.

We are a racist country with a culture of tolerating it. This can’t be news to anyone.

All of us parents out there know that driving in the car is sometimes a golden opportunity to exchange good conversation with our teenagers. It’s also a fabulous eavesdropping exercise if they are exchanging their own words or talking about something online or antics of mutual friends.

You can’t see them. You can’t swim in them. But groundwater aquifers are one of the most important sources of water in the North Coast.

'We are fielding a lot of questions these days about our upcoming Building Modernization Project. The planning stage of the project is nearing completion and we still anticipate a start date for construction around Sept. 1...'